Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker
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Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism.


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May 22, 2012

Eclipse, Publishing Transition, Transreal Books

There was a cool partial annular eclipse of the sun here in the SF Bay Area last week. It was about 6:30 pm, and the sun was going behind the hill that I live on, so I walked up the street to get a better view. I’d been using the safe method of studying tiny [...]

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Loco
Loco
A Tor.Com Original
Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
Tor Books

“The feds aren’t going to fund you anymore. Not when your boss is a self-flattening radioactive pancake.” Desperate times call for desperate inventions....


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Nested Scrolls
Nested Scrolls

Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

The life and times of Rudolph von Bitter Rucker, original Cyberpunk, math and computer science professor, inventor of Transrealism, twice winner of the Philip...


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Good Night, Moon
Good Night, Moon
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Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling
Tor Books

Carlo Morse and Jimmy Ganzer pioneered dream-fabbing, but these days people only want to close their eyes to trashy stuff -- not the mention the kids and their...


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Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory
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Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

Like many other stories and novels by Rudy Rucker, “Jack and the Aktuals” is a wild and wooly dramatization of certain principles of higher mathematics, with...


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Hylozoic
Hylozoic

Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and...


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Postsingular
Postsingular

Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

The Singularity has happened, and life afterward proves to be more bizarre than we thought. “SF book of the year” (Interzone).


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Mathematicians in Love
Mathematicians in Love

Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

Reality is never more unpredictable than when two mathematicians are in love with the same girl, and can change the world to get her. Bela and Paul, two...


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Frek and the Elixir
Frek and the Elixir

Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have...


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As Above, So Below
As Above, So Below

Rudy Rucker
Forge Books

Peter Bruegel's paintings---a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others---have long defined our idea of...


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Spaceland
Spaceland

Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always...


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Saucer Wisdom
Saucer Wisdom

Rudy Rucker
Tor Books

Brace yourself when you open this book, for it purports to be the about the visions of neat biotechnologies one Frank Shook brings back from future times where...


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